Exhibition by artist Tomas Saraceno opens at the Museum for Contemporary Art in Berlin

Balloon modules are seen at the exhibition 'Cloud Cities' by Argentinian artist Tomas Saraceno at the Museum for Contemporary Art at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition of the installation artist shows around 20 balloon modules, which can be entered by the visitors. The exhibition runs until 15 January 2012. EPA/MAURIZIO GAMBARINI.

BERLIN.- Tomás Saraceno's installations shatter traditional concepts relating to place, time, gravity and traditional ideas as to what constitutes architecture. His works are utopian and invite the viewer to play a part in their impact on a particular space, as they reach up to the sky and down to the ground. The artist creates gardens that hang in the air and allow visitors to float in space, fulfilling a dream shared by all humankind. Saraceno draws inspiration from soap bubbles and the incredible strength and flexibility of spider webs.

The interests of the artist (born in 1973, in Tucuman/Argentina) are broad and he moves with confidence from place to place throughout the world. With his studio in Frankfurt, it is unsurprising that the city's international airport plays an important role in his work. Everything he does appears to develop from a certain degree of boundlessness, motivated by an interest in the changes taking place in the world in which we live. Each of his objects invites the viewer to consider alternative forms of knowledge, feelings and our interaction with others.

The exhibition in the Hamburger Bahnhof for the first time sees approx. 20 of his balloon models go on show at one time. The exhibition gives visitors the chance to see for themselves how the hanging settlements interact with each other and the space, not merely by observing them from afar, but by actually entering them.